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#70 Somalia
Somalia is to Africa what Lowestoft is to Great Britain: the easternmost point on the land. Somalia is situated in that part of Africa...

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Mar 124 min read


#68 The Gambia
When you look for The Gambia on a map of West Africa, you might wonder whether you’re looking at a political map, or a river basin map....

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Aug 30, 20243 min read


#59 Burundi
One night last week, I woke up at 4am and decided I was far too hungry for sleeping. I went downstairs, nailed a bowl of Bran Flakes, and...

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Feb 7, 20233 min read


#58 Djibouti
Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and tiny little Djibouti make up the region known as the Horn of Africa. Djibouti is a 20 mile stone’s throw...

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Jan 29, 20233 min read


#56 Rwanda
Rwanda is a little land-locked country in the African Rift Valley and is affectionately known as the “land of a thousand hills”, the...

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Oct 25, 20222 min read


#55 Burkina Faso
Back in 2019 when I first had the idea for Jen Cooks The World, one of Mrs S’s first responses was “what on earth are you going to make...

Jen
Oct 16, 20223 min read


#50 Zambia
!!Honesty alert!! I picked Turkey out of the saucepan after Bulgaria. However, four out of the last ten countries have been on the Med,...

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May 25, 20223 min read


#47 Tunisia
Tunisia is one of the 22 countries with a Mediterranean coastline and the key ingredients in its cuisine reflect this location and...

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Mar 14, 20225 min read


#40 Côte d'Ivoire
Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, as it is officially known, sits on the south coast of West Africa between Liberia and Ghana. Côte d'Ivoire is...

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Aug 12, 20212 min read


#36 Republic of the Congo
Do-do-do come on and eat in Congo… Haha! Sorry not sorry for that! The Republic of the Congo is not to be confused with its neighbour,...

Jen
Apr 28, 20213 min read


#35 Guinea-Bissau
I’m so excited to be away from the Pacific Ocean! I haven’t been to Africa since country number 18 (Egypt)! One of the ten...

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Mar 31, 20212 min read


#18 Egypt
Egypt is dry. In 2014, out of 177 countries where measurements were recorded, Egypt had the lowest rainfall of just...

Jen
Jul 3, 20205 min read


#15 Seychelles
Seychelles is arguably the country in the world with the dreamiest-sounding name (Bahamas is also a contender)… …and its geographical...

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May 8, 20204 min read


#14 Togo
Overview Emmanuel Adebayor. I don’t even know where Togo is. Next to Ghana. Togo is the poorest country featured in my blog to date....

Jen
Apr 28, 20203 min read


#12 Morocco
It is my friend and landlady (and more recently, colleague and fellow prisoner), Rhiannon’s, lucky day! At the start of this project I...

Jen
Apr 13, 20205 min read


#11 Uganda
“Uganda is a fairy-tale. You climb up a railway instead of a beanstalk, and at the end there is a wonderful new world...Uganda is truly...

Jen
Mar 28, 20204 min read


#9 Cape Verde
Well here we are again, on a small, Portuguese-speaking island to the west of mainland Africa. It’s quite nice to dream of sunshine...

Jen
Feb 3, 20203 min read


#7 São Tomé and Príncipe
OK, well I know that I wrote every country on a piece of paper only a few months ago but when this one came out of the pan it felt like...

Jen
Oct 8, 20195 min read


#5 Botswana
Well I’m ploughing through southern Africa aren’t I! Again, I’ve found reading up about this country super-interesting, but I’ll keep it...

Jen
Aug 16, 20193 min read


#3 South Africa
Considering I wrote the countries out and added them to the pan in alphabetical order and dropped them all on the floor it’s quite...

Jen
Jun 24, 20196 min read
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